The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 21, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY wis CITIZEN Wednesday, January 21, 1953 The Rey West Citizen, Published’ daily (except Sinday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- lisher, trom, The Citizen Bulding, corner of Greene and Ann Streets. _ Only Daily Newspape in Key West and Monroe County L. Pp. ARTMAN —— Publisher NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Enjered at Key West, Norida, as Second Glass Matier Member of The Associated ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction @ all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise eredited in Published here. ‘ Fert e dees Member Florida Press Association Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per year $12; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE WN GN APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invitys discussion of public issue &n@ subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish &ngnymous communications. 1 a ZS . IMPROVEMENTS FOR [KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments Beach and Bathing Pavilion, Ajirports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Govers =~ -‘s. Community Auditorium. POLIO IMMUNIZATION THIS YEAR President E. R. Harriman, of the American Red Cross, recently revealed that children in stricken areas will re- ceive protection against polio this year, in the form of immunization. This will mark a major step forward in the progress against paralytic poliomyelitis, The project announced by Mr. Harriman calls for pro- duction of gamma globulin on a greatly increased basis. It is estimated that at least two million children will need gamma globulin this year as a protective treatment. Gamma globulin is a blood component which provides temporary immunity from polio. Tests conducted indicate that while inoculation with this preventative does not prove one hundred per cent effective, it does reduce the outbreak of polio, from the second to fifth weeks after inoculation to a fraction of results experienced when no inoculations were given. Further study is being made into the possibilities of gamma globulin and other possible immunizations, but, meanwhile, the first polio immunization project is sched- uled for next summer. This project is sure to prove a great physical and psychological aid and in the continuing fight against infantile paralysis and it is hoped that, from the use of this preventative, medical sciénce will find the answers necessary for the perfection of an immunization which is one hundred per cent effective. i [eS Sa ae C.A.A. LISTS AIR TOLL The Civil Aeronautics Board recently announced that about 1,000.civilians were killed in air accidents in 1952. Interestingly, the toll taken in private flying accidents was much greater than that in scheduled air accidents. The Board estimated the number of persons killed in private flying accidents during 1952 at between 600 and 650, Compared to this, it estimated the deaths resulti from commercial transport operations (scheduled, non- scheduled and cargo lines) at 200 passengers and 26 crew members, Nineteen persons were killed on the ground in these accidents. The total of 264 deaths was significantly lower than the 1951 total, which was 328 deaths. It is thought that the number of deaths caused from military aircraft acci- dents increased during 1952, although the Defense De- partment says figures on accident deaths, etc. are secret. Until the Defense Department releases information to show otherwise, the impression will remain that military flying accidents increased considerably during the’ year. One of the dangers of looking ahead is that we see things that never happen. Planning is important, both in the lives of individuals and the lives of nations. Never let anyone fool you about this matter. FINANCIAL REPORT IS OUT Top Executives’ Pay Gains Not Up To Those Of Some Factory Workers Percentagewise By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK wW—Top executives ip most American corporations have been doing all right financial- ly during the current business boom—although their pay gains haven’t been as great percentage- wise as have those of some factory workers. You may have guessed-this. But now there’sa financial report on the salaries, bonus payments and contributions to retirement funds of some 15,000 top men in 1,850 companies, Their compensation went up by 4 to 10 per cent since the start of the Korean War, the American Management Association reports. The average am the 46 indus- tries studied was five per cent, This is compensation before tax- es. Many an poe eg you that after taxation, his take- home pay doesn’t look that hot. And he'll add that the cost of living index went up even more—although none of the top boys pretends he actually is under-nourished, There is wide variation among companies and among industries, AMA reports, “‘because of the rect relation between compensa- By WILBUR JENNINGS WASHINGTON W#—Florida, an Eisenhower state, gave the throngs watching the inauguration yester- day a view of one of its top pro- ducts: Miss America. Recalling the Truman ceremon- ies in 1948 when thinly clad girls aboard the Florida float nearly froze, Florida garbed its prize at- traction in a sable coat. Miss America is Miss Neva Jane tion of executives and the sales and profit performance of their compani Pay top executives “depends on their ability to produce in- creased sales and »” AMA notes.. And bonuses play a large part, varying much as 30 per cent among nies as their profits rise or fall. On an average, bonus payments make up 20 per cent of the total compensation of top executives. Bonus amounts were raised in 12 of the durable goods manufac- turing industries and reduced in four. In non-durable goods indus- tries there were seven increases to nine reductions. All retail classi- fications were lower. Contributions to retirement funds gainers. For all industries Tose 15 per cent, and accounted for 10 to 15 per cent of the total compensation, Then AMA looks at the middle Management group and finds a different picture. Salaries don’t go bad sag a pes to cre an for this as the; do for the top ih ead 6 bn — eyeing group, ——between the icy-maki and first-line ps peg crea standing on the watrter deck of his ship as he discovered Frorida, “The Land of Flowers.” The center of the ship was filled with huge make-believe oranges and other citrus. Aft of this, high on @ throne cut out of a large orange, sat Miss America. In the role of Ponce De Leon was Vincent Maldarelli, portrait painter who is spending the winter in DeLand: however, were the most consistent | first Langley who won the title last September as a_ representative from Georgia. She is a native of Lakeland. Yesterday Florida made her the Two Florida girls dressed in Seminole Indian dress had 57,000 tangerines to be tossed out along the parade route. And Misses Bob- No, 1 attraction on its float in the mammoth inaugural parade. Jubilant Republicans from the Sunshine State came to Washing- ton by the hundreds to watch the proceedings. Not since 1928 when Hoover won have they had an op- portunity to participate so joyously in the climax to a November elec- tion victory. Democratic governor Dan Mec- Carty and Mrs. McCarty were as- signed to an open car ahead of the float. Behind them came the drum and bugle corps ofsAmerican Legion Post No, 9 of Jacksonville and Miami's crack motorcycle po- lice team. The Florida float was 40 feet long. It depicted Ponce De Leon FOG ENVELOPS ENGLAND AGAIN LONDON — Fog blotted out |more than two-thirds of England | Tues.. disrupting land, sea and jair travel ‘« It was the most widespread of this winter's four big grayouts. } More than 30 of England's 43 coun- jes were affected. | In London, it was the same old istery. Snaried transport made thgusands late to work. The city's itwo big airports were gull die fmore than 24 hours after the fog first fell Monday. by Jo Hood, Gainesville, and Miss eager gage Jacksonville, wi ing may expect sore arms Wednesday. a Two oversized sail fish rose and fell on either side of the float as it moved along. Florida’s Republican contingent was headed by G. Harold Alexand- er, Ft. Myers; C. C. Spades, St. Augustine; and Mrs. Helen Bow- man Lieb, Tampa. Gov. McCarty’s party included 16 persons. The others were Mrs. McCarty; State Sen. and Mrs. Le- roy Collins, Tallahassee; Mr. and Mrs. John McCarty, Ft. Pierce; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Stark Jr., Jacksonville; Mr. and Mrs. Earl | Powers, Gainesville; Mr. and Mrs. ‘Robert Kloeppel Jr., Jacksonville; | PURGE REFUGEES FLEE | a . | TO WESTERN GERMANY | BERLIN W-Nearly 1,500 East Germans have fied to West Berlin over the week end. many of them to escape Communist directed purges, it was announced here. ‘The list of refugees was headed by Dr. Erich Mildner, chief of the mining section in the Soviet zone ministry for foreign trade Thirty Soviet sone Jews arrived \ is West Berlin last night to es-/ possible arrest in a crack on Jews reportedly planned \by the secret police. | sal earns an average of $12,000 a year, AMA reports after a survey of 550 different types of executive jobs in the companies surveyed. i Company growth and profit gains don’t help the middle group as it does the top, AMA explains, be- cause as companies grow in size, jobs are divided—and the remain- ing task may not bring its executor a raise. About 15 per cent of the middle management executives get less than $7,500 a year, the survey shows. About half get from $7,500 to $15,500. A fourth are in the $15,- 000 to $18,000 bracket. And 10 per cent top $18,000. AMA gives no comparison fig- ures to show how the group has fared since 1950 because this is the ear it has surveyed middle they }management pay. And below that level—at the pro- duction workers’ level—how have they been doing? The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average weekly earnings in all manufacturing in- dustries was $58.85 in June, 1930. By last October, some 28 months later, the average had risen to $70.80, This is a guin of 20 per cent. The figure does not include fringe benefits. Top Florida Product Is Miss America Mr. and Mrs. A. M, Collins, Ocala; and Mr. and Mrs. Jue Hays, Winter Haven. The Citrus Commission was rep- resented by its advertising com- mittee: C. V. Griffin, Howey-in-the -Hills; O. C. Minton, Ft. Pierce and Frank Roper, Winter Garden. Miss America’s official escort was Air Force Col. Taylor Drys- dale formerly of Ft. Lauderdale. Robert M. Eaves, Washington as- sistant to the president of Inter- national Harvester, was aide to Gov. McCarty. The Florida contingent was in the fifth division of the parade along with Texas and Iowa and various military units including a company of WACs. HAL ‘| THIS ROCK OF OURS (Editor’s note; Hal Boyle wrote a column describing the kind of ideal husband every woman needs. Today his wife presents a firm re- 2) By FRANCES BOYLE NEW YORK (#—This time my little man has really put his foot in his mouth. That is no mean feat for a man who wears a 10-C shoe. buttal Sometimes I feel my husband was | responsible for killing vaudeville— by trying to get into the act. Every- one today is giving bachelor ga's advice on what kind of man would make them the best husband. It’s ridiculous. But for my own Rover boy to do it—well, it simply dulls the edge of wonder. He could not advise an unmarried lady por- cupine. How can one wife's strol- ling nightmare tell any other girl about the man-of-her-dreams? So far as women are concerned, my husband’s mind dwells in an ivory tower—size 742. His informa- tion about them is largely based on a childhood reading of the Elsie Dinsmore series—and what needs to brush up on,“‘What Every Lad Should Know,” The best thing you can say about his efforts to pose as an authority on the better sex is that he is like a good-hearted schoolboy with 12 thumbs trying to help the girl next door thread a needle. Where does he get his ideas? Well, girls, let’s see: He says you really don’t yearn for a man who is tall, dark and handsome—that this is just imagi- nation. I don’t want to be ruthless with my breakfast buddy, but the facts are: (1) He himself can’t see the pic- tures if he sits behind a tall man at the movies; (2) What is left of his muddy- gold locks is turning to silver, and (3) The nose he flattened as a kid is a perfect match for his smile—ear to ear. Neither of us mind that, Somebody has to look rugged. That’s my Rover—rugged -.Tugged.,,rugged. Now, as to his advice about marrying a bald-headed man be- cause baldies are more romantic and better breadwinners, Could this be because rugged Rover him- self looks every day less like an airdale and more like a Mexican hairless dog? You can’t keep trying to crawl headfirst through a pillow each morning to hide from an alarm clock without rubbing off some hair. F And Mr. Boyle's idea of romance and finance is as follows: “Tm going to take you out .to- night. How much money you got?” His prescription for the ideal hus- band also calls for one who is. a tea-drinker (intellectually stimulat- ing) and a cigar-smoker (more so- ciable), He himself drinks tea be- cause his mother did. I don’t know who taught him to smoke cigars. But did you ever try to give a goodbye kiss to a man with a lighted cigar stub. in his mouth? | How sociable can a man get? Let me conclude Mr. Boyle’s an- alysis with this point: He works for a man who is tall, dark and handsome, His boss pr-e sumably earns more take-home pay and he has been bringing it home ‘to the same wife for 10 years longer than Mr. Boyle has been borrow- ing lunch money from me. His boss smokes cigarets and drinks coffee, My own advice, girls, is. this: Marry any man you like—even the boys in the Army whispered. He There is quite a bit of grumbling concerning the County Commis- sioners’ ultimatum regarding park- ing facilities at Meacham Field, Folks have a legitimate gripe and a right to fear for the safety and welfare of their own businesses, Condemnation of Mesa's business simply because it provided com- petition to the County parking lot would furnish a precedent where- by either the City or the County could condemn every business es- tablishment in town simply be- cause they wanted to operate such a business themselves. As said a few days back, under democracy, no segment of our government has the right to interfere with pri- vately-owned business or compete with it, If the Cuban ferry is ever an actuality and the City desires to put in a restaurant concession, will they have the right to condemn Duke’s, The Caribe, or any other jPlace that serves food and there by furnishes competition? Or, to return to the County and its policies, suppose Rose Rabin's Tea Room, more familiarly known as ‘““Mom’s Place,” was to sudden- ly find itself faced with competi- tion. Would the County have the right to condemn all the other es- tablishments? Condemnation must be for the benefit of the general public. There can be no other excuse and, it must be impartial! If the con- demnation threat.toward Mesa is to be fulfilled, . investigation of other parking lots and garages should be instituted. Many visitors leave their ears parked in town and ride the airport limousine to catch their plane. Are not these places in town furnishing compe- tition to the County's parking lot also? Spot Zoning Although I feel the County is wrong on its stand, I also feel that the City of. Key West is even more wrong. when it revokes its promise to the people and resumes spot-zoning. Do you remember when the mayor of Key West, C. B. Harvey, threatened law suits if zoning requirements were changed on White St. A few of us are not lucky enough to live near property owned by one of the com- missioners so we never know what changes might be made through spot-zoning so that a barroom, a pool hall, or what have you, might be permitted next door to our homes. Jack Delaney, (City Commission- er), has always fought spot-zoning, This fight has been his strongest drawing-card to the voter’s heart. Let’s hope he does not change ' | By JAMES MARLOW | hower in Jater years may look back | upon his life up till noon Tues. as almost carefree woen compared with what lies ahead, His whole life had been a prep- aration for military eminence. He attained jt. If he had retired from public life when he retired from military life his place in history |would be unquestioned. it would have been military his- itory, of course. Any fault found | with him in that field, such as in ‘tactics or strategy, would have been only a minor footnote in the |fat volume of his achievements. | His was military success on the igrand scale. But the affection he the rugged type, if it isn’t a vintage, won from a grateful nation was for year for the male. They're all habit-forming. more than just his victories in | battle, By BILL GIBB Contradicting Itself? As you may e if guhee iF 42 i i i iy i okt i g 5 crue A | ls i i E E : j 3 3 E+ as ii i i 3 & g E < i i i 3582 at iF l These are: ; ay Bernie Papy, State Representa- tive. Politically, I’m against Papy. Personally, 1 like him, Whether his political practices have done more harm than good is up the dividual voter to decide, m admit, to be truthful, that he done a lot of good for the count There again the question es as to whether this good as a man or as politicia) Commissioner Joe Allen ways fought for the =e WASHINGTON —Gen. Eisen- | 8! final critical judg’ on whatever he did. That is no longer true. today, as new head presidency leadership for roughly ple on earth because part of mankind which Hes outside communism, President Truman. laid | In his appearance he represent- |g The numbér of trucks in the /éd the military side of democracy United States increased from about at its best: He was a warm, 2% million in 1925 to about 9% | earnest, smiling man. On the most million in 1952. jsolemn occasions he seemed as lfriendly and familiar as the map If the crushing strength is divid- ed by the density, wood is stronger | g t steel | military life; and of the position of \@ military man in a republic, there than steel, but steel has a greater tensile strength. next door. But by the very nature of his Double-Cuty Iron Lung Helps Two Four-Year-Olds Stricken by pollo during tast epidemc. twa M respirater In Hurley Heapital in Flint, Mic Dennis Keefer (left) of Lapeer, and James Carr of Flint. With the children is their purse Mrs. Paul year's all-time record igan four-yearcide share 8 Goudie nation need and They are ” Lape. Four out of every five Dimes. The annual polls appes of January, feliowing the wor i The March of Dimes mest cutpace pelle's gains. i patents in the receive beip from the March of s scheduted for ail olle year in bistery. antite 4 = 3 335 F af FOR COMING MONTHS WASHINGTON # — The Army wants 53,00 men called tbrough Selective Service in March-~and the Defense Depariment has indi- cated monthly calis may continue at about that level through June ‘The Army draft call was issued late Monday. The figure same os that annousced fot ary and compares Janaary 4